Nell Robinson Riggins

Wednesday

Jan 25, 2012 at 9:41 PM

Nell Robison Riggins, 94, of Amarillo died Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. W. Douglas Mills officiating. Burial will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 S. Bell St.

Nell was born Oct. 11, 1917, and went to be with the Lord on Jan. 23, 2012. Nell graduated from Borger High School in 1935 and married her high school sweetheart, Norman Robison. They went on to have five children and lived in Borger and Stinnett. After Norman's death, Nell became the assistant to the president of Panhandle Producers and Henderson Trust in Stinnett and later transferred with the same company to Amarillo. In 1964, Nell met and married Lonnie Riggins in Amarillo. In this new phase of Nell's life, she moved to Europe and lived in Belgium and London and traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. In 1974 after retiring, they returned to Amarillo, where she became the favorite travel destination for her children, grandchildren and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman Edward Robison; her second husband, Lonnie Riggins; a son, Norman Edward Robison Jr.; two daughters, Suzann Robison Gulley and Diana Riggins Calvin; and a sister, Janette Boyington.